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Quintassential for the future
A grandfather’s rusty old megaphone stuffed unceremoniously into the hedge of a quinta that had to be sold in the battle for survival – a poignant reminder of the bleak postwar years when the Port trade itself almost went under. But when the Symingtons recovered the megaphone in 1998, Dow’s bicentennial year, they had bought back the estate, Quinta da Senhora da Ribeira, that Dow’s had been forced to sell in 1954. They had already purchased (in 1989) and renovated the huge historic estate on the opposite south bank of the Douro Superior – Quinta do Vesuvio – and in 1999, three of the younger Symington partners took on the neighbouring Quinta do Vale de Malhadas. In the five years since then (2000–04), Symington Family Estates has invested a further e36 million in major capital projects. ...
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